Lack of Action
Time and again safety experts, concerned citizens' groups and the official opposition have raised concerns over the lack of action from the Department of Police in tackling basic problems in the SAPS. For instance, our SAPS in Crisis document, released earlier this year, identified many of the problems that we are talking about today, and set out detailed steps that need to be taken by the Department of Police to address them. They never did so, and now the situation is even worse.
What is quite clear is that the ANC government is totally unconcerned about sorting out the most fundamental problems in our SAPS. Copies of each of the replies referred to in this statement are available upon request from rossv@da.org.za.
